Business Renewal

Franklin Bank

Managing money is easy and convenient with Equitable's Online Business Services. Tsedal Neeley, a professor at Harvard Business School, and Paul Leonardi, a management professor at UC Santa Barbara, talk about the potential that applications such as Slack, Yammer, and Microsoft Teams have for strengthening employee collaboration, productivity, and organizational culture. They discuss their research showing how effective these tools can be and warn about common traps companies face when they implement them. Neeley and Leonardi are co-authors of the article What Managers Need to Know About Social Tools” in the November-December 2017 issue of Harvard Business Review.

Account information management: Maintaining control of your company's cash flow means having up-to-date and accurate information available at all times. Business Online gives you access to balances and statements across your entire Standard Bank transactional portfolio. To reduce the risk of carrying out fraudulent or erroneous transactions, Business Online allows you to validate account details across major banks in South Africa before making payments or collecting funds.

Trade services: Business Online is able to handle both local and international trade transactions, as well as assist with the processing of foreign exchange deals. It also allows you to set up instruments for the payment and collection of funds, both domestically and across borders.

Brokerage products and services are offered through Wells Fargo Advisors. Wells Fargo Advisors is a trade name used by Wells Fargo Clearing Services, LLC (WFCS) and Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network, LLC, Members SIPC , separate registered broker-dealers and non-bank affiliates of Wells Fargo & Company. WellsTrade® brokerage accounts are offered through WFCS.

Larger companies can hire an agency or full-time staff member to run their Facebook and Twitter accounts, but small businesses often have to handle their own social media marketing With so many responsibilities, business owners are often too busy, overwhelmed or undereducated about the importance of social media to spend time developing and implementing a great social media strategy. As a consultant, you can help them determine the best tactics, posting schedules and content for their target audience. As their follower count grows, so will your business.